Bloody Sunday

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30 1972. Bloody SundayBloody Sunday refers to the March 7 1965 civil rights march that was supposed to go from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery to protest the shooting death of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson.

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The roughly 600 marchers were violently driven back by Alabama State Troopers Dallas County Sheriffs deputies and a horse-mounted posse after they crossed the Edmund.

. Bloody Sunday or the Bogside Massacre was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry Northern Ireland when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. Marchers marching from Brown Chapel AME. About 15000 people gathered in the Creggan area of Derry on the morning of 30 January 1972 to take part in a civil rights march.

Five months earlier in. 13 hours agoThe city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland is marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when British troops fired on unarmed civil rights marchers killing 13. Church to Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday March 7 1965 Bloody Sunday.

Directed by Paul Greengrass. With James Nesbitt Allan Gildea Gerard Crossan Mary Moulds. Friends and family of those.

Family members carry photographs of those killed on Bloody Sunday at a memorial march in Londonderry Derry Northern Ireland marking 50 years since the. The early spring of 1965 became the turning point in the tensely-waged struggle for voting rights throughout Alabama and the deep South. Thirteen were killed outright while the death of another man four months later was attributed to.

The events leading to Bloody Sunday. Updated 856 AM ET Sun January 30 2022.

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